Place of residence: San Francisco, USA
Activity: developer, technical director of Ripple
Website: https://justmoon.com/
The main idea of Stephen Thomas was to create a base through which cryptocurrencies could move freely, like information in the public domain. The young man fully embodied his ideas in the Ripple project. It is one of the creators of the ILP protocol.
“The key benchmark we are striving for in the Ripple project is a more decentralized blockchain than Bitcoin. At the moment, 51% of the network control only five mining pools, which seems to us wrong. ”
He is also the founder of WeUseCoins.com and the BitcoinJS software package, which is actively used in business. Promotes hybrid blockchain technology as a future cryptocurrency.